Electrical properties of newborn skin

Neonatal Skin: Structure and Function, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 179-192

  Tagami, Hachiro ^a   Kikuchi, Katsuko ^a   O’Goshi, Kenichiro ^a   Kobayashi, Hiromi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Japanese Dermatological Association   (Japan)

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